Democracy isn't working
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1244327,00.html
It is the west's calling card, but its global applicability is now in
doubt
Martin Jacques
Tuesday June 22, 2004
The Guardian
However implausibly, President Bush continues to reiterate his
commitment to the early introduction of democracy in Iraq. Indeed, the
idea of democratic reform in the Arab world has been central to the
Anglo-American position on Iraq. There should be nothing surprising in
that. Democracy has become the universal calling card of the west, the
mantra that is chanted at every country that falls short (when
politically convenient, of course), the ubiquitous solution to the
problems of countries that are not democratic.
Martin Jacques
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